Flexibility practices, wages and productivity: Evidence from Norway

Personnel Review

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 526-543

  van der Meer, Peter H ^a   Ringdal, Kristen ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

Flexible labour; Norway; Numerical flexibility; Organizational performance; Pay; Productivity rates

Indexed keywords

EID: 70349617447     PISSN: 00483486     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00483480910978036     Document Type: Article

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